Questions and answers
Since this pattern provides me with an unexpected opportunity to learn more about fellow citizens, and since I have well and thoroughly learned the hazards of a perceived imbalance in social exchanges lately, here is my required response
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2. I was bred to be a warleader, not a peacekeeper. Since war is not conducive to a stable society when there is only the one island to inhabit, providing authority seemed a better use of my education and nature, as well as a form of compensation for the sins of my past.
3. Occasionally. Usually when burning things and cackling maniacally. That is not entirely a joke.
4. ...I'm not certain. I'm not much of a connoisseur; given my genetic modifications, ethyl alcohol has no perceptible effect upon my biochemistry, and I understand that the mood-altering effects provide most of the entertainment value of alcohol consumption. Generally, though -- some reasonably fragrant burgundy or merlot without too much of a tannic bite?
5. My albinism is an artifact of the genetic modification that was performed upon me. The length, however, is my own choice. I had no control over the rest of my life during my training and my years at war -- every hour regimented, every meal prescribed -- and my hair was the one note of defiance left to me. I informed my handlers that if they wished it cut, they would have to send someone capable of getting close enough in a fair fight to shorten it for me. It never happened. If you choose to read femininity into that, I believe that's your issue more than my own. Besides, I should think the cut of my uniform would adequately inform you that I would have to be the world's most flat-chested woman.
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I shall question it again...
2. I see, so you was simply born into your class.
How terrible, you never tasted real freedom before, have you?
3. Then smile more! You should smile more, Good General!
You look so sour all the time! Is this a reference to question one?
4. I never thought I would meet a man who is immune to one of the most pleasurable drinks ever created...
How is it that you hold such a high tolerance for ethanol, Good General? Ethanol is perhaps the earliest organic reaction known to humanity! It's intoxicating effects due to it's consumption have certainly been known since ancient times!
I have met many who seem to hold a very high tolerance for liquor, but you sir...
Goodness.
I wonder now how I will ever buy you that gift now...
5. ...You actually made a joke!
The world's most flat chested woman, indeed!
Oh no no! I simply teasing! You are all man, I know!
So no one has ever got passed your blade to ever cut your hair? Mhm! I doubt anyone ever shall, then! And thank goodness no one ever well!
It would be a shame for such fine hair to be cut so crudely!
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2. I did, once. Or rather, I tasted what I'd misinterpreted to be freedom. It tied into #1 quite extensively.
3. ...I'll work on it? and yes.
4. As I mentioned, I am the result of a genetic experiment. A good portion of my genetic code comes from an entity that was never human, and beyond that, I've been infused with a substance that heightens every physical reaction. The effects range from luminous eyes to heightened speed and strength to accelerated healing -- I believe it's the accelerated healing that keeps alcohol from affecting me. Unfortunately, it also keeps most medicines and painkillers from affecting me either; if I am ill or wounded, the only effective solution for me is magical, and it's a waste of resources to expend such power on something as trivial as a headache, or minor injuries I would survive.
...wait, a gift? Whatever for?
5. Since my arrival here, I was once doused in acid that burned at flesh and stone alike. Needless to say, it also did considerable damage to my hair. This made me rather cranky.
I now keep the perpetrator's undying soul trapped in crystal and bound to my will; I often leave it in my sock drawer. (Unless Yuffie is around, in which case I conceal it more thoroughly.)
But otherwise, no, I haven't had it involuntarily cut for me for quite some time. >:3
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